If you're going to be celebrating your Thanksgiving holiday anywhere near Indianapolis this year, you have one more thing to be thankful for...an awesome Star Trek convention!

That's right! It's that time again, and Starbase Indy is having their yearly convention just in time to celebrate the holiday twice. The convention starts on Friday November 29th and spans the whole weekend. They have a bunch of guests this year, including three big names from Star Trek. Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Armin Shimerman (Quark), and Suzie Plakson (Worf's mate K'Ehelyr) will be guests this year, along with several actors from Stargate SG1. We love the big DS9 presence, considering that it's the show's 20th anniversary, this year!

Not only is sending a mystery-solving spacecraft to Mars super cool, but NASA just managed to add a bigger cool factor by having Star Trek: The Next Generation's LeVar Burton be their spokesperson for their new PSA.

“NASA is returning to Mars. Why? Well, to help solve one of the big Martian mysteries. Where did all of that Mars water go?", Burton says as he opens the video.

It may not be the U.S.S. Enterprise, but the new MAVEN spacecraft and mission sounds incredibly exciting, none the less. Be sure to check out NASA's video, here. And you can find more information about the MAVEN mission, here.

In June we reported on the premiere episode of the new fan series, "Star Trek Continues", and we're happy to report now that they are on their way to making three brand new episodes, with your help. They have recently launched a KirkKickstartercampaign that will allow them to bring these new episodes right to your very own living room...er, computer.

This fan series is pretty darned cool! When I watched the first episode, it felt so much like an actual TOS episode that I kept forgetting that it wasn't. We're super excited to hear that there are three new episodes on the horizon...and we can't wait to see them! Go to their Kickstarter page, and MAKE IT SO!!

Bye Bye,Robot is announcing the launch of three new Star Trek prints. Two of the new prints, by artists Cliff Cramp and Tracie Ching, are heavily inspired by this year’s 20th Anniversary of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

“The graphic style of Tracie’s print and the expressionistic style of Cliff’s prints play off of each other beautifully,” says Charity Wood, Co-Founder of Bye Bye, Robot. “We’re excited to be working with so many talented artists…each bringing their unique style to the Star Trek realm…offering different styles of art for different collectors’ tastes.”

We’re pleased to announce the 25th episode of our “Life After Trek” podcast. In this episode we're featuring an interview with "Star Trek Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library" Author Larry Nemecek. Larry's new book is available for pre-order from Amazon and will be available for sale December 3rd at bookstores everywhere.

Of course many of you out there know Larry from his many other works including "Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion", The Con of Wrath, hundreds of Trek interviews featured in Trekland on Speaker, his personal site Treklandblog.com, numerous convention appearances, and pretty much every aspect of Star Trek from TNG onward.

Have you ever wanted to see inside Star Trek: The Next Generation’sCommander Riker’s Jonathan Frakes’s house? How would you feel knowing that you could even live there? Well, it looks like somebody out there may get their wish. Jonathan Frakes has recently put his Beverly Hills house up for rent…for the tidy sum of $25,000 a month.

Frakes and his wife, Gennie Francis recently purchased a Woodland Hills home for $1 million, reports Trulia. They might have moved to the new house and are therefore offering the Beverly Hills digs for rent.

According to the listing records at Realtor.com, the home is a 10,000 square feet, double story, single family residence, sitting on a 1.06 acre lot. The house has eight bedrooms and 11 bathrooms. Interiors feature mixed flooring and French doors and windows.

If you're in the LaLa-Land area (Los Angeles Califor-ni-ya), be sure to swing by the Laemmle's Music Hall 3 theater to check out IT'S A FRAME UP. The Michael DeMeritt (Life After Trek Episode) co-produced short will be playing Tuesday through Thursday and features another well known Voyager alumnus, Robert Picardo. IT'S A FRAME UP features 30's slapstick comedy in the style of Abbot & Costello or better yet Benny Biffle and Sam Shooster. Check out the info below to learn more.